This week’s theme
Words derived from metals

This week’s words
brazen
auricomous
philargyry
tinpot
lead balloon

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PRONUNCIATION:

(fil-ARJ-uh-ree)

MEANING:

noun: The love of money; greed.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek phil- (love) + argyros (silver). Ultimately from the Indo-European root arg- (to shine; white) that is also the source of argue (from Latin arguere, to make clear), argillaceous (clayey), and French argent (money). The word also appears in the chemical symbol for silver (Ag) and in the name of the country Argentina (where flows Rio de la Plata, Spanish for “river of silver”). Earliest documented use: 1529.

USAGE:

“The Popes (labouring daily more and more with this incurable disease of philargyry).”
William Lambarde; A Perambulation of Kent; Henrie Middleton; 1576.

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